European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes saturday March 8,1986 shaking up by Peter s. Hawes associated press exit Henry i slain with the Light touch of a delete key. The Duke of Clarence Hastings lady Anne Zap Rev. Donald d. Lynch an associate professor of English at Fairfield University in Fairfield conn., smiles each time a character from Shakespeare s Richard Iii disappears from his computer screen. The Bard has gone digital in the basement of a building at the University where Lynch has devised a colourful computer program that catalogues sorts graphs maps and outlines plots and characters in nearly All of Shakespeare s plays. At the touch of a Button its user can find out How Many lines of verse Are in Romeo and Juliet whether Shakespeare s history plays were longer than his comedies or who said misery acquaints a Man with strange it was Stephano in the students can even take tests by answering questions randomly selected by the computer from a Bank of about 200 entered by Lynch. The program is embellished with elaborate graphics in Green Blue red Gold and fuchsia. Its title the Shakespeare Library appears on the screen inside a Golden Crown behind which the background dissolves from color to color before exploding in red and fading into Black. That s a Little jazz Lynch said. I do see some kids falling asleep with some Lynch 57 and a Shakespeare professor for 25 years is putting his program to use in his classroom and it s usually available in Fairfield s computer lab to students wanting to Brush up before an exam take a missed quiz or do some extra studying. One Day after it s completed and copyrighted he Hopes to sell his program to a distributor allowing other College and High school teachers to use it As a tool. The seeming incongruity of teaching Shakespeare by computer is not lost on Lynch. I m an English teacher my hobbies Are Golf and stained Glass. What the Heck am i doing Here Lynch said during an interview in the lab. Beginning several years ago i told my students if you re going to get anywhere in the world you be got to know computers.11 decided i d better put up or shut up he said. Lynch took a yearlong sabbatical to take computer courses. His goal was to see How a humanities professor could use a computer. Teachers in humanities Are afraid of High tech. But if we can use chalkboards and overhead projectors Why not these during his sabbatical he discovered a keen interest in computers and it coincidental meshed with his love of Shakespeare. The Shakespeare Library was a natural development. I m a Jesuit priest unmarried and celibate he said. This is my while Lynch has created a teaching tool for his students a group in Chicago is attempting a More ambitious coupling of the Bard and the microchip. Volunteers Are working on the Shakespeare data Bank which they Hope will eventually commit tens of thousands 6 f pages of scholarly work As Well As the plays and poems themselves to computer memory. Lynch s program is based on his own lectures and notes and in final form will be packaged in four sections. There will be a Canon that contains information about All the plays their length Type percentage of verse and prose Date written and three sections comedies histories and tragedies that examine the individual works. The heart of the program is the dramatic personae which displays the name of every character in each play within boxes color coded to prod the imagination and make the information More memorable. Characters who die a violent death for example often appear in red. A comic character might be in Lavender. All Are connected with lines to show their relations to others in the plays. This is stuff i be been putting on the blackboard for 20 years said Lynch. To see All these people in Richard Iii zapped is just great. It does t take the place of creative imaginative teaching. In fact it enhances it. I want kids to come away having experienced the plays in their own kit. But i have him of by Eugene Sheffer across1 Manhattan project discovery 6 apothecary 12 oath13 writer balzac14 master ful15 reel out 16 Blissful place 17 gorge19 islet 20 sudden wind 22 blubber24 30s conserva Tion org. 27 rank counter part29 beat de cisively32 ruin in retrievably35 portico 36 Fence feature 37 Barbie Beau 38 Fox Type 40 collections 42 bother44 ceremony 46 Steppe Down 50 wildcat52 change form54 lure 55 pain Type 56 took it easy 57 Roadside eatery avg. Solution time 25 min. Down1 eager 2 drill3 in the red4 de Mer 5 word before eating6 close 7 Corn breads 8 co. 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